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Songs of Joy & Peace
from: Sony
:Album Description:Imagine a party, a musical party inspired by the holiday season. A party that celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and joy animating seasonal festivals the world over - Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa, Yule and New Year's Day. That is what brought Yo-Yo Ma together with a remarkable group of friends - some old, some new - to create SONGS OF JOY & PEACE. It is Yo-Yo's hope that everyone who listens to this album will hear a song familiar, comfortable and beloved to them as well as discover and ...
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Songs of Joy & Peace (Deluxe Version)
from: Sony
:Album Description:Imagine a party, a musical party inspired by the holiday season. A party that celebrates the universal hopes, dreams and joy animating seasonal festivals the world over - Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa, Yule and New Year's Day. That is what brought Yo-Yo Ma together with a remarkable group of friends - some old, some new - to create SONGS OF JOY & PEACE. It is Yo-Yo's hope that everyone who listens to this album will hear a song familiar, comfortable and beloved to them as well as discover and ...
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A Dave Brubeck Christmas
: :Dave Brubeck's moving liner notes to this 14-number assortment of solo jazz piano works are almost as good as his impressions of the standards and lesser-know Christmas music. Mixing jazz playing with classical flourishes and splashes of blues, Brubeck deftly expands the sound of Christmas. You'll never hear a 'Silent Night' like Brubeck's as the glistening introduction leads to a powerful meditation on the melody. And for sheer fun, there are his swinging opening numbers, ''Homecoming' Jingle Bells' and 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.' There's magic and majesty in the ...
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50 Years of Dave Brubeck: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007
: :Dave Brubeck's moving liner notes to this 14-number assortment of solo jazz piano works are almost as good as his impressions of the standards and lesser-know Christmas music. Mixing jazz playing with classical flourishes and splashes of blues, Brubeck deftly expands the sound of Christmas. You'll never hear a 'Silent Night' like Brubeck's as the glistening introduction leads to a powerful meditation on the melody. And for sheer fun, there are his swinging opening numbers, ''Homecoming' Jingle Bells' and 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.' There's magic and majesty in the ...
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Dave Brubeck - Greatest Hits
: :While greatest-hits CDs abound, Dave Brubeck has been one of the few modern-jazz musicians to have actually enjoyed an occasional hit record. This CD compiles material from Brubeck's Columbia recordings of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing his deft combination of modernist harmony and unusual time signatures with the immediately accessible. Whether it's his own fine song 'In Your Own Sweet Way' or Stephen Foster's 'Camptown Races,' his homage to Duke Ellington or the Mozart-inspired 'Blue Rondo,' Brubeck balances his taste for innovation with traditional melodic values. The quartet with altoist Paul ...
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Indian Summer
: :In his prime, Dave Brubeck was never known for his delicacy as a pianist--quite the opposite. But it's that quality that defines 'Indian Summer,' a collection of lightly nuanced ballads featuring him alone at his instrument, confronting old age at 86. With its slow-to-leisurely tempos and plainspoken style, this 72-minute effort is best heard in small sections. But there's no denying the emotion at the heart of tunes like 'September Song,' 'I'm Alone,' and the title song, or the charm of the subtle stride and blues touches he applies to classics, ...
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Jazz Impressions of New York
: :In his prime, Dave Brubeck was never known for his delicacy as a pianist--quite the opposite. But it's that quality that defines 'Indian Summer,' a collection of lightly nuanced ballads featuring him alone at his instrument, confronting old age at 86. With its slow-to-leisurely tempos and plainspoken style, this 72-minute effort is best heard in small sections. But there's no denying the emotion at the heart of tunes like 'September Song,' 'I'm Alone,' and the title song, or the charm of the subtle stride and blues touches he applies to classics, ...
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall
: :In his prime, Dave Brubeck was never known for his delicacy as a pianist--quite the opposite. But it's that quality that defines 'Indian Summer,' a collection of lightly nuanced ballads featuring him alone at his instrument, confronting old age at 86. With its slow-to-leisurely tempos and plainspoken style, this 72-minute effort is best heard in small sections. But there's no denying the emotion at the heart of tunes like 'September Song,' 'I'm Alone,' and the title song, or the charm of the subtle stride and blues touches he applies to classics, ...
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Time Further Out
: :Time Further Out extends upon the concepts first enunciated on the Brubeck Quartet's surprise hit Time Out, but in this case with the organizing principles involving the leader's varied compositional treatments of the blues--traditional and otherwise. Thus a darkly ruminative tune such as 'Bluette' treats a fairly standard 12-bar form in a very non-standard manner, interpolating a variety of classical devices that suggest the melodic influence of Chopin and the contrapuntal devices of Bach in its treatment, with a yearning alto solo from saxophonist Paul Desmond that suggests the emotional content ...
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On The Radio: Live 1956-1957
: :Dave Brubeck is one of the legendary figures of post-war modern jazz, and was one of the leading figures in the so-called West Coast Cool Jazz style. In 1954 he was sufficiently high profile to be only the second jazz musician, after Louis Armstrong, to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, where he was described as the most exciting new jazz artist at work today. His leaning towards improvisation and experimentation led to the landmark album, Time Out, in 1959. Recorded with Brubeck's classic Quartet line-up with Paul ...
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